There are also instances that most likely exist just to suck up data for AI/LLM training. People were up in arms about it happening on Reddit and trying to torch their comments when here they’re giving it away for free and there are less bots because it’s a newer platform.
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
I honestly don't care as long as the bots don't cause a denial of service
There are some fedi scrapers.
At least some people on Mastodon really noticed it after they managed to look up their name on chatGPT
At least for a while (dont know the current case) some people bragged about being able to scrape fedi content or something
Dont know it some of the scrapers are gov spies tho
Gonna edit this after finding the saved messages that support my comment, needs probably a while ;.;
Edit: did not find it but searching for "Fediverse Scraper" has at the top two fediverse scraper tools hosted on GitHub, so yea, its easy
thank you for the reminder, Robert Paulson.
Im not scared. Ill lay it all out. im Hubert Manne. Thats H-U-B-E-R-T and I live at 1397 Prince Ave, Athens, GA 30606. My ssn is 123-45-6789. Are you bro enough, to come at me?
Weird. Just like passwords, all I saw for your ssn is asterisks. Must be a Fediverse security feature.
Hunter2
Fuck.
Really?? Let me try! My password is: RhaedasFromLemmyIsAHumanDildo
Wow, that must be a very secure password to be so long. :P
That's the password to my luggage!
I've always considered myself a small enough target that it's unlikely very many people give a shit.
This is not about you specifically, this is about all of us together
I didn't expect my comment to cover all of us, presumably everybody makes their own assessment of their security concerns.
I was suggesting that you are missing the point of the OP
They don't care about any single one of us unless you are Luigi but they want data on all of us. That's where Intel and money is at.
His name is Robert Paulson
All together now